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/sˈeɪvɪŋz bæŋk/ Listen

noun

Saving n.

Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.

Exception; reservation. "Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty."

Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Savings bank" Quotes from Famous Books

... train of cars and a track to run it on? But if he bought that, then how could he get along without a jumping-jack that threw up its arms and legs when you pulled the string? And if he took the jumping-jack, then what about an iron savings bank with a monkey on top that shook his head with thanks when you dropped the money in? Lovely things, all of them, but David put them from him. He did it with decision, but with a nervous haste ...

— A Melody in Silver • Keene Abbott

... Ebenezer, hesitating. "I shall have to take some money from the savings bank to make up what that graceless ...

— Do and Dare - A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... herons, and the pine-martens, and the ermines. All this delightful life he was now told he must abandon for ever. Nor was that all. Illness costs money. While a man is earning nothing, he is running up a doctor's bill. Edward now saw that he must at last fall back upon his savings bank, as he rightly called it—his loved and cherished collection of Banffshire animals. He had to draw upon it heavily. Forty cases of birds were sold; and Edward now knew that he would never be able to replace the specimens he ...

— Biographies of Working Men • Grant Allen

... of the administration of President Taft was overshadowed by the party war, and reduced in effectiveness by the Democratic control of the House. The prosecutions of the trusts were continued, a parcel post was established as a postal savings bank had been, the income tax amendment became part of the Constitution, and an amendment for the direct election ...

— The New Nation • Frederic L. Paxson

... certain sure, now, miss?' pleaded the housemaid; 'for if you ain't, I've got a pound laid by in my drawer ready to put in the Post Office Savings Bank, and you're as welcome to it as flowers in May, if ...

— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon

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